Pasting a mix of video and jpg in chronological order?

babybowen · Post by **babybowen** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:06 pm

This may be easy, but a brief search of the manual and forum didn't find the answer.

During family events I customarily oscillate back and forth between taking movies and taking photos. When I bring them in to the Library, (I believe) they have to go to video and image folders, respectively. The two groups seem to come into the library in chronological order. respectively. I drag the photos to the storyboard (in chronological order); but then dragging the movies into the storyboard results in their all being together, not dispersed among the photos. I can move them appropriately, one by one, but it seems likely there is a better way. Is there? Thanks for any ideas you can give me!

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:18 pm

Sorry to say, no VS does not insert clips by any type of order, other than how you selected them.

Scoota · Post by **Scoota** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 11:35 pm

Sorry to say I cannot help.

I am in the same boat taking family movies and photos and would appreciate tips on how to do this smarter.............

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:18 am

I'm a little confused. Do you want them all to appear in chronological order, or do you want them all mixed up?

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:18 am

Black Lab wrote:I'm a little confused. Do you want them all to appear in chronological order, or do you want them all mixed up?

He wants the stills and movies mixed but in order of Date of Recroding.

babybowen · Post by **babybowen** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:09 am

Clevo wrote:
Black Lab wrote:I'm a little confused. Do you want them all to appear in chronological order, or do you want them all mixed up?
He wants the stills and movies mixed but in order of Date of Recroding.

Exactly right! But it sounds like that is not possible.

babdi · Post by **babdi** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 5:59 am

Given the fact that the library lists all the images & video clips in the chronological order. The best way would be
1) Select all images and paste it in the time line. This would ensure all images are in sequence
2) Do the same to the video clips.
All the video clips will lie after the images in a chronological order.
You can then, mix match images and video clips as you desire

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 6:19 am

babybowen wrote:
Clevo wrote:
Black Lab wrote:I'm a little confused. Do you want them all to appear in chronological order, or do you want them all mixed up?
He wants the stills and movies mixed but in order of Date of Recroding.

Exactly right! But it sounds like that is not possible.

I have a theory that mighr work but:

1) Are all files named as date and time eg 1300 221207.xxx? I believe some cameras can be set to name files with date and time.

2) I'm sure you can copy and past right from the file directory in Windows straight onto the timeline but I'm at work and cannot test this till I get home this evening.

If the two conditions exsist

You can theoritically sort your files by name in a windows file directory(where you have them stored in their special folder)...this will list files in chornilogical order no matter what the file extension is.

click first file then ***-click the last file, then copy and past straight into the time line.

I hope this theory works.

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 8:21 am

My understanding is that babybowen wants to first insert all the photos in chronological order, then insert all the video in chronological order. When inserting the video clips, to have VS automatically place them next to (mixed in with "dispersed among") the image clips based on the date/times. That's not possible, because the image (photo) and video clips are maintained in separate libraries.

It requires inserting a few photos, then adding some video clips for the same date/time. Adding the next photos, then video, and so on.

In order for VS to do what Babybowen is wanting, VS needs to be able to Sort on the Time-Line/Storyboard. I don't think that would be a good thing. Imagine having several overlay clips, titles, narrations, synced with your main video track. All of that would have to move in accordance with the main track. I think this type of function belongs with the "one-click editing" group.

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:02 am

It is a one click editing group thing...or what i call the magic Wand.

Considering we are using PC 100's of times faster and smarter than the computers on the Apollo 11 mission I think we can wish for simpler approaches (pardon the pun)

Post by **Ron P.** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 11:06 am

Yes, but then what good is video editing if all you have to do is click one button? This is my opinion only... That equates to totally laziness..

A monkey would be able to edit video with that type of setup. I think that the human race is to be a bit sharper than a chimpanzee.

Clevo · Post by **Clevo** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 12:57 pm

vidoman wrote:Yes, but then what good is video editing if all you have to do is click one button? This is my opinion only... That equates to totally laziness.. A monkey would be able to edit video with that type of setup. I think that the human race is to be a bit sharper than a chimpanzee.

Exactly...there's more satisfaction when things are fiddly and you feel you got it right. It's an art and you learn more as you go along.

bvideo · Post by **bvideo** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:34 pm

Assuming that all your clips are in a place where you can select them with windows explorer, I believe it is possible to do what you want by dragging in the clips without going through the library. Just drag them directly into the timeline. First, order the clips by time in explorer, then select the time range. Depending on your version of windows, you might have to fiddle with the selection procedure. E.g. you might have to click the last clip first, then shift select the first clip.

Bill B.

Bob Hughes · Post by **Bob Hughes** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 4:21 pm

Dropping the clips on the time line is the easiest way to do this. Unfortunately VS has a mind of its own when it comes to order. If you use explorer thumbnail or icon view and then highlight and drop on time line. They seem to go in the correct order.
Bob